Mezcal Free Spirit - LA Times Magazine

Las perlas never lie, Ron Cooper at Del Maguey headquarters
Bottled art- the work is given a last inspection, Del Maguey HQ
Good to Go: Mañanitas, clay sipping cups, filled with Cooper's elixir sit in the shadow of Del Maguey bottles.
Artist RON COOPER has made DEL MAGUEY MEZCAL his masterwork—and sparked a renaissance of America's oldest spirit by Wyatt Peabody / photographs by Lloyd Ziff / produced by Jennifer StockleyYou find yourself tearing down a seemingly endless dirt road in Ron Cooper's Jeep—a rooster tail of dust marking a path as your body jolts in the backseat. The radio signal renders faint traces of a Mexican narco-ballad on the blown-out speakers, punc­tuating his diatribes on purity